Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 70, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 May 1907 — Telephone Consolidation Is Near. [ARTICLE]

Telephone Consolidation Is Near.

A New Yqrk dispatch to the In-* dianapolis News states that the con solidation of the Independent and Bell Telephone proprieties in the middle west is about perfected. The plan contemplates that the Independents retire where the Bell is strong and the Bell retire where the Independents are strong.